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System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Hive vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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NameCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.coveo.comhive.apache.orgsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.coveo.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCoveoApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release2012201220012011
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnono

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